Robert Southey's Keswick: Enhancing Understanding of the Literary Culture of the Northern Lake District

罗伯特·索塞的《凯西克》：增进对北湖区文学文化的理解

• 批准号: AH/T001925/1
• 负责人: Lynda Pratt
• 金额: $ 8.44万
• 依托单位: University of Nottingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT001925%2F1
• 关键词: Robert; Southey; Keswick; Enhancing; Understanding

This project develops the impact of the open access digital edition The Collected Letters of Robert Southey: 1791-1815. Loved and loathed by his contemporaries, Southey (1774-1843) was a highly controversial Romantic Poet Laureate, essayist and historian. He lived for 40 years in the north Lake District market town of Keswick and his grave is in one of the town's churchyards. The Keswick Museum holds a unique, substantial and underused collection of manuscripts, books, portraits and other items by and associated with Southey, his family and his friends. This archive was a key resource for The Collected Letters. Keswick Museum is the major local heritage organisation. In 2017-8 it welcomed 19,419 visitors and provided on-site educational sessions to c.5600 schoolchildren from the immediate surrounding area. This project will collaborate with Keswick Museum to help it transform the way it is able to present the significance of Southey and his circle to its visitors and to key stage 2 school teachers and pupils in the region. The project's objectives are:to increase Keswick Museum's ability to present Southey and his circle as a visitor attraction. to develop Keswick Museum's on-site, sustainable expertise in its Southey collections. to collaborate with Keswick Museum to create a resource encouraging visitors to explore 'Southey's Keswick' and to discover and enjoy a key part of the town's cultural heritage. to extend the reach and range of Keswick Museum's KS2 education programme, particularly in literacy, and embed Southey and his circle in it for the first time. to develop awareness and knowledge of Southey and his relationship to Keswick as part of the region's wider Cultural Tourism strategy. The project team will achieve these by working with Keswick Museum to develop new attractions that draw on its Southey collection. These will include a display of the Museum's Southey holdings, a guidebook, a leaflet taking visitors on a walking tour of 'Southey's Keswick', and educational materials for use by Key Stage 2 teachers and pupils working on literacy. The latter will include a 'touring box' that can be used by those local schools who are unable to visit the Museum. The project will further enrich visitors' experiences by training Keswick Museum's volunteers to interpret the new Southey display for visitors and to give guided walking tours. A publicity release for Lakes Culture will further promote 'Southey's Keswick'.This work is important and timely because it engages with two areas of well-defined local need: the tourist economy and education. The Lake District is exceptionally dependent on tourism to sustain its economy and attracts 41m. visits every year. Keswick is still recovering from the severe floods of 2016, and wishes to develop and grow all aspects of its ability to attract visitors. The literary heritage of Keswick and the north Lakes is rich, but comparatively under-developed. It has no sites that can compare with the visitor numbers attracted to sites in the south Lakes associated with Beatrix Potter (250k visitors p.a.) and William Wordsworth (50k visitors p.a.). This will use a key local resource (the Southey collection at Keswick Museum) to raise the visibility and attraction both of a key local celebrity (Southey) and of local cultural heritage. It thus offers a significant opportunity to enhance the value of a potentially important cultural destination in the north Lakes area. By collaborating with Keswick Museum to enhance and extend its work with schools, the project will also contribute to local educational agendas. It will allow teachers and pupils from the region to use and benefit from new learning resources that draw on their local literary heritage and their local history. For the first time, the provision of a 'touring box' will make Keswick Museum's educational offer available to those schools that are further afield and unable to visit the Museum in person.

该项目开发了开放获取数字版《罗伯特·苏塞书信集：1791-1815》的影响。索塞（1774-1843）是一位备受争议的浪漫主义桂冠诗人、散文家和历史学家，他的同时代人对他又爱又恨。他在北部湖区的集镇Keswick生活了40年，他的坟墓在镇上的一个教堂墓地里。凯瑟克博物馆拥有独特的、大量的、未被充分利用的手稿、书籍、肖像和其他物品，这些物品是由索塞、他的家人和他的朋友们收藏的，也与他们有关。这个档案是《书信选集》的重要资源。Keswick博物馆是当地主要的遗产组织。2017-8年，它接待了19,419名游客，并为附近地区的约5600名学童提供了现场教育课程。该项目将与Keswick博物馆合作，帮助其改变向游客和该地区关键的第二阶段学校教师和学生展示Southey及其圈子的重要性的方式。该项目的目标是：增加Keswick博物馆的能力，使Southey和他的圈子成为一个吸引游客的地方。以发展凯瑟克博物馆的现场，可持续的专业知识，在其南部收藏品。与Keswick博物馆合作，创造一种资源，鼓励游客探索“南塞的Keswick”，发现和享受城镇文化遗产的关键部分。以扩大Keswick博物馆的KS2教育计划的范围和范围，特别是在扫盲方面，并首次将Southey和他的圈子纳入其中。作为该地区更广泛的文化旅游战略的一部分，发展对Southey及其与Keswick关系的认识和了解。项目团队将通过与Keswick博物馆合作，利用其南方收藏品开发新的景点来实现这些目标。这些展品将包括博物馆的南方藏品、一本指南、一份带领游客徒步游览“南方Keswick”的传单，以及供第二阶段关键阶段教师和学生读写使用的教育材料。后者将包括一个“旅游箱”，可以为那些无法参观博物馆的当地学校使用。该项目将进一步丰富游客的体验，培训Keswick博物馆的志愿者为游客解释新的Southey展示，并提供带导游的徒步旅行。湖区文化的宣传片将进一步推广“南方的凯瑟克”。这项工作既重要又及时，因为它涉及两个明确界定的当地需求领域：旅游经济和教育。湖区特别依赖旅游业来维持其经济，每年吸引4100万游客。Keswick仍在从2016年的严重洪水中恢复，并希望发展和增长其吸引游客的各个方面的能力。凯瑟克和北湖区的文学遗产丰富，但相对欠发达。它没有任何网站可以与南湖的景点吸引的游客数量相提并论，这些景点与贝娅特丽克丝·波特（每年25万游客）和威廉·华兹华斯（每年5万游客）有关。这将使用一个重要的当地资源（Keswick博物馆的Southey藏品）来提高当地重要名人（Southey）和当地文化遗产的知名度和吸引力。因此，它提供了一个重要的机会，以提高北湖区一个潜在的重要文化目的地的价值。通过与Keswick博物馆合作，加强和扩展与学校的合作，该项目也将为当地的教育议程做出贡献。它将允许该地区的教师和学生使用并受益于利用当地文学遗产和当地历史的新学习资源。第一次，“旅游箱”的提供将使Keswick博物馆的教育提供给那些更远的学校，无法亲自参观博物馆。